Il Historical Museum of the Carabinieri in Rome, was established in 1925 and the building that houses it, built towards the end of the nineteenth century, is a small but harmonious palace that still preserves the original volumes and external lines, with the only variation of decorative elements inserted on the perimeter by the Military Engineers based on the design of Architect Scipione Tadolini.
It was inaugurated in the presence of King Vittorio Emanuele III on June 6, 1937. In the 23 exhibition rooms, the Historical Museum preserves memorabilia (including the Royal Patents of establishment and the first War Flag of the Corps), uniforms, weapons, documents, and other material of significant value related to the history of the Corps since its foundation, as well as works dedicated to the Carabinieri by artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The route, both chronological and thematic, is accompanied and enhanced by multilingual audioguides and modern multimedia devices.
The Museum also houses a Shrine dedicated to the Fallen and an Honor Hall, in which plaster sculptures taken from the original casts of those in bronze that adorn, in Turin, the National Monument to the Carabiniere, created in 1933 by the renowned sculptor Edoardo Rubino, and erected in the garden of the Royal Palace. In addition to the exhibition, the Museum also takes care of historical research, through access to its archives, which researchers and scholars can consult.
